Airplane Sensors
From this description you can see that a plane has four different moveable control surfaces, as shown here:
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The plane also has two different sensors mounted on the wing:
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The L-shaped tube is called a pitot tube. Air that rams into this tube during flight creates pressure, and that pressure moves the needle on the air-speed indicator in the cockpit. The small opening on the right is a whistle that sounds as the wing nears a stall. The larger opening visible near the cockpit is used for ventilation.
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